Your VPN is almost ready to use, however you want to disable "use default gateway on remote network". Unfortunately GUI has been removed from Windows 10, however this is easily done through PowerShell. Open up a PowerShell and runGet-vpnConnection

​​If you are going to install a service pack on a machine, moving a virtual server to another drive or doing any critical system level changes, make sure you back up your machine first. For virtualized machine, make sure you back up all related files, including vhd, avhd etc.​

You should already assume there could be catastrophic failure after these kind of operations and you should always be prepared for them by having a full backup somewhere. This is especially important when you are working your production or critical servers.​

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Microsoft Update is a service that allows for the periodic patching of system files to address known issues with Microsoft products. Originally called Windows Update, it was specifically focused on Operating System patches for Windows. More recently however, it has been expanded to include all Microsoft products and the name has changed to Microsoft Update, allowing the automated patching of non-OS software such as Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office.

​It is important to keep your machine up-to-date, but Windows Update Automatic installation can be somewhat intrusive to your work flow. There is nothing worse than getting Windows Updates installing during important presentation. You should set Windows Updates to be installed manually.

​​​​Having a very popular website is great. The only problem is where to host it. If you host it in your local country then it is very fast for your local market but what about the market on the other side of the world?

The solution is to have 2 or more servers and direct users to the server that is the closest to them. This is possible with the help of Bind DNS server and a list of IP addresses and the country of origin.

The beauty of this solution is that it is not application specific. Anything like VoIP or game servers can be directed to their local server.Follow the directions found in this article https://geoip.site/ to setup your Bind config file. The only problem is that the PHP script supplied in that article does not work correctly. It cannot convert the number based IP to the real IP and subnet. Because of this I had to create my own little app to make the file for Bind to use. You can find it and get the source code.

How it works:Once you have made your acl files you can use views in the bind configuration to specify which zone file to use for each group of IP’s. Each zone file would have the relevant IP information for that target segment of the world.

Imagine you have 3 zone files: one for europe, one for the america’s and one for the rest of the world. You simple edit named.conf.local to include the acls for europe and the america’s. E.g.:

include "/etc/bind/named.conf.options"; include "/etc/bind/acl-europe_east.inc"; include "/etc/bind/acl-europe_sout.inc"; include "/etc/bind/acl-europe_west.inc"; include "/etc/bind/acl-europe_nort.inc"; include "/etc/bind/acl-america_cari.inc"; include "/etc/bind/acl-america_cent.inc"; include "/etc/bind/acl-america_nort.inc"; include "/etc/bind/acl-america_sout.inc";

We've seen this happen too many times - a user wants to do something on a networkserver machine, and because the user hasn't got a profile setup on that machine, he end up using the Administrator password to log on as administrator.

​This is not a good thing because:​

We cannot tell who currently is logged in remotely, so if another developer wants to change something on the server, we can't work out who is on it.

This is particularly the case where a lot of the servers don't allow multiple concurrent
users, so we need to know who to disconnect or kick to free up a remote connection
license.

A lot of applications are installed as 'administrator', and no one end up remembering
what they installed, and thus the administrator profile is loaded with applications
that most people don't use.

If you check in/check out files from Source Safe, it may end up using the administrator
account - which means we can't work out who made a change in source safe.

Some of the network services, like TFS/Exchange/Database are essential for our business and people will not be able to work if any of these services is down or inaccessible.
When such thing happens, the first thing you need to do is to send notification to SysAdmins so they can start investigating the problem, and you should cc your project manager because those issues will stop you getting tasks done.

What is ANAME record? ANAME record (also known as A record) is an alias record that allows you to map the apex record or any other record within your domain to a target host name, essentially a CNAME record for the apex record. ANAME record is especially useful for when you have multiple domain names and your website is hosted by a provider that changes it's IP Address, this does happen quite regularly with WPEngine. Many DNS service provider does not support ANAME record, however, DNSMadeEasy has made this service available.

Configuring ANAME is as easy as configuring CNAME. Let's have a look at DNS records for adamcogan.com.au, DNS records contains apex record for adamcogan.com.au and a www.adamcogan.com.au. The apex record uses ANAME, while CNAME for www.adamcogan.au - now we will never have to worry about updating these records, they will follow the DNS records of adamcogan.com. ​

2. Netgear is OK. The hardware works, the drivers work, and the support is excellent. However they tend to be “simple” devices. They generally lack advanced features and are aimed more toward the home user market.

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3. DLink is NOT recommended. We will never buy this brand ever again

They tend not to last longer than the warranty period

It is recommend keeping the firmware on all routers up to date in order to mitigate against security vulnerabilities​.

15. Click OK on all of the open dialogs | Double click on the new VPN
16.You will notice your username and password is missing – retype these into the VPN connection
17. Press Connect and your VPN should dial and connect

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